Newcomer / Intro frustation and questions

[asavaria]

Can someone tell me, why we can't see a % for our reputation with major/smaller faction? And at the same time, telling us what % a mission or action give or remove?

Been unfriendly since forever with the Fed, and can seem to be able to get back to neutral.

In a week, i can do for 500k bounty for the fed, 5-10 "reputation" mission for local fed faction, and a good 30-40 normal mission for them too.
But at same time, i can get 4-5 bounty because of frendly fire ....


ohhh and one last thing.... grinding USS for 1 hours at 30km/s trying to kill 5 pirate in a system without NAV or RES, and finally only seeing 3 USS in that hour... 1 empty, 1 with toxic cargo and 1 with 6 clean NPC.... that.... it's just bad design.

 

[Sacman]

Sorry i can't help you ... but hey, welcome to ED!

 

[YDS55]

Why would you want to get from frienly to neutral, friendly has more advantages than neutral.

The USS is indeed bad sometimes, I had the same issue this week, went to a system without NAV beacon to kill some pirates and never found a usefull USS, finally gave up and took the reputation hit.

 

[asavaria]

I want to get from unfriendly to neutral.

As for the USS... i got 2 exacte same quest... kill 5 pirates but in differents system.

First system, got 5 of them after 4th USS and took 10min at all
Seconde system, got 0 of them after 3 USS and took 1h.... not sure if i took reputation hit... it was a quest for Fed Rank i think

Why would you want to get from frienly to neutral, friendly has more advantages than neutral.

The USS is indeed bad sometimes, I had the same issue this week, went to a system without NAV beacon to kill some pirates and never found a usefull USS, finally gave up and took the reputation hit.

 

[DragonIV]

To farm USS spots, move at minimum speed in supercruise. They pop up far more frequently at low speeds than they do above the speed of light (c).

 

[Andovar]

Personally, I think the reputation system still needs some tweaking.
I've been working for a while now on my alliance reputation. Took a little while to get to friendly, but still haven't reached allied. Then all of a sudden the other day, my reputation with the feds changed to friendly. huh? I haven't done any missions for the feds since the first week since release, and the only thing I've done for them recently was turn in about 50K worth of bounties that I got while hunting in an anarchy system.

I agree with the OP, a little more transparency would be nice.

 

[YDS55]

I want to get from unfriendly to neutral.

As for the USS... i got 2 exacte same quest... kill 5 pirates but in differents system.

First system, got 5 of them after 4th USS and took 10min at all
Seconde system, got 0 of them after 3 USS and took 1h.... not sure if i took reputation hit... it was a quest for Fed Rank i think

Oh sorry misread your comment, unfriendly explains a lot, I have the exact problem, I got caught smuggling something and they are unfriendly ever since.

 

[Midgardsormr]

Personally, I think the reputation system still needs some tweaking.
I've been working for a while now on my alliance reputation. Took a little while to get to friendly, but still haven't reached allied. Then all of a sudden the other day, my reputation with the feds changed to friendly. huh? I haven't done any missions for the feds since the first week since release, and the only thing I've done for them recently was turn in about 50K worth of bounties that I got while hunting in an anarchy system.

I agree with the OP, a little more transparency would be nice.

Missions aren't the only way to increase your standings. Trading at the faction's stations, bounty hunting, and selling exploration data also raise it.